Sergey Stankevich

Sergey Borisovich Stankevich (25 February 1954-) was a State Duma deputy from December 1993 to 1995. Stankevich was an adviser to President Boris Yeltsin during the early 1990s, and he later became a Party of Russian Unity and Accord politician.

Biography
Sergey Stankevich was born in Shchyolkovo, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union on 25 Febuary 1954. Stankevich graduated from the Mscow Pedagogical Institute in 1977 and learned English and Polish, later serving as a diplomat in Poland. He worked as a senior research fellow at the Institute of World History of the USSR until 1990, having joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1987. From 1989 to 1992, he was a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of Russia, and he became the first deputy chairman of the Moscow City Council in March 1990. Stankevich frequently disagreed with Mikhail Gorbachev, but he agreed with his policies of glasnost and perestroika, and he became a senior adviser to President Boris Yeltsin. In August 1991, he oversaw the dismantling of the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky in Lubyanka Square, and he oversaw the eviction of the CPSU Central Committee building. He served as an adviser for years, and he was charged with bribery in July 1992. From 1993 to 1995, he served in the State Duma as a Party of Russian Unity and Accord member, and he fled to Poland while under investigation for corruption in 1995, only to be arrested in Warsaw in April 1997.